VA: Personal information swiped from Norfolk case worker's car

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.wvec.com/news/topstories/stories/wvec_local_040908_comm_services_norfolk.493f52f7.html

The personal information of about 30 clients of Norfolk's Community 
Services Board was compromised when a case worker's briefcase was stolen.

Officials say the briefcase was left in the worker's car in a Virginia 
Beach parking garage on March 24, but someone smashed a window and stole 
it.

The case worker violated the agency's policy by taking sensitive patient 
information outside the board's offices, Executive Director George Pratt 
said.

He says it's unclear what information was in the files but that it likely 
included Social Security numbers.

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